CVE-2015-4481
Race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Windows allows local users to write to...
- Published
- Aug 16, 2015
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mozilla
- Evidence observed
- Aug 21, 2015
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:PLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 54.5%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
Race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving a hard link to a log file during an update.
Sources
1Google Security Research · windows · Aug 21, 2015
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